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Production and perception of geminate consonants in Italian as a foreign language: Czech, Finnish, German and Spanish learners in contrast

supported and funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(2024 – 2027, Free University of Berlin)

Find information here

For interested participants in BERLIN information here: Einladung zum Experiment BERLIN
For interested participants in BRNO information here: Pozvánka BRNO
For interested participants in PRAGUE information here: Pozvánka PRAHA
For interested participants in HELSINKI information here: Kutsu osallistua kielitieteelliseen kokeeseen

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Teaching and Modeling L2 Spanish and L2 Italian Intonation

Keywords: Intonation; L2 Spanish; L2 Italian; AM-Model; methods
Main cooperation: Laura Colantoni, Wendy Elvira-García, Trudel Meisenburg

 

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Description and modeling of intonation of Costa Rican Spanish 

Aims:
This work forms a part of the corpus project (Inter-)Fonología del Español Contemporáneo ((I)FEC), which aims to document both the phonic variation in the Spanish-speaking world and the pronunciation of Spanish as an L2 and a foreign lan-guage in different learner groups (see Pustka et al. 2017). The data of this Spanish variety were collected in March 2018 in San José with the support of the Universidad de Costa Rica.

Keywords: Costa Rican Spanish; Intonation; AM-Model
Main cooperation: Prof. Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück University) and Jessica López (Universidad de Costa Rica)

 

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Czech ToBI and modeling Czech intonation

Keywords: Tone and Break Indices; Annotation of prosody; Czech language; Accentual (phrase) language; AM-Model. First proposal presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017. Find the presentation here.

Pešková, Andrea (accepted): “The Intonational Phonology of Czech.” In Sun-Ah Jun (Ed.): Prosodic Typology III: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.